When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and
charming lower-class Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love
with her and runs away with her to Paris, incurring the wrath of
his family and forfeiting his inheritance. However, he struggles to
satisfy her taste for luxury, frittering away the little he has
left, and his domestic bliss finally disintegrates when he finds
out that Manon has taken a rich lover. Although causing scandal
when it was first published in 1731 and subsequently banned, Manon
Lescaut proved very popular with eighteenth-century readers and
circulated in pirated editions. The basis for Puccini's famous
opera, Abbe Prevost's ground-breaking tale of passion and tragedy
became hugely influential on the next generation of novelists.
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